Hey all,
Times are rough and everything is on fire, so the Lackacrew has decided to lighten things up a bit, with a good old fashioned donnybrook.
Several of the voice actors will be joining us Saturday, in character, for a game night! We'll answer audience questions along the way too. It looks like there may also be a very special, spooky mystery guest among us - they've not made an appearance yet, but you'll no doubt recognize the voice!
When: Saturday, Sep...
2020-09-18 00:02:10 +0000 UTC
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Just make a cot of poffee.
2020-09-12 21:55:03 +0000 UTC
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Some of you might have seen this already if you follow me on Twitter, but it seemed necessary to share this here too.
Photos by Cat Cosplay, who did a Mordecai feature Saturday. XD
2020-09-06 11:08:58 +0000 UTC
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Tonika Pantoja (StringBing, Trolls, How to Train Your Dragon 3, Wish Dragon) will be joining Fable Siegel and I live to talk about animation education, making your own animated short films, and creating a pitch! We'll be answering questions from the audience too, of course.
When: Saturday, September 5th, starting at 8:30pm CT/6:30pm PT
Where:
2020-09-04 00:17:19 +0000 UTC
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Some recent Patron pieces you may have seen me working on in streams of late.
2020-08-31 21:34:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
I'll be streaming tomorrow, Saturday August 29th, starting at 5pm CT / 6pm ET at my Twitch Channel.
I'll be working on various Patreon and Kickstarter and Film related projects, and some people from the animation team might stop by to chat! If you have questions, bring them!
Hope I'll see you there!
2020-08-28 22:46:35 +0000 UTC
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Just another progress update!
- A peek at shot glass prototypes from the factory! It might be hard to tell from the images, but they're sort of a square with slightly rounded edges in shape. You can get a better look in this video.
- Unending chaos for Freckle. A run animation by
2020-08-26 19:00:21 +0000 UTC
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Some more previews of how the animation is shaping up this month!
You can see some early examples of how 3D props are working their way into production as well as a bit of effects animation in the form of the passing train. Audio is still a work in progress at this point as well (sound effects aren't final), but the pieces are coming together.
Director: Fable Siegel
Props: 2020-08-25 01:34:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
I'm going to be doing an open YouTube stream tonight starting at 10pm CT while I work on some Patron and Kickstarter related pieces. Feel free to hop in for a chat! Some of the film crew may pop in too.
You can find the stream here!
(Note: this isn't the private Patron stream - I'll schedule one very shortly just for you!)
2020-08-21 02:45:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We've got a live chat + UNO game scheduled tonight with the film crew!
We'll be chatting and answering questions like usual, but as an added bonus - behold the slaughter!
...The very civil, sportsmanlike slaughter. >_>
Where: The Lackadaisy Discord (Lackachat Radio / #lackachat channel)
When: Tonight, Sunday the 16th, ...
2020-08-16 20:28:46 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
As part of that animated film Kickstarter, we promised an emoji pack and, well, here it is! Patrons get it first!
Contained in the download (attached to this post), you'll find 50 emojis/emotes sized for Discord, Slack and Twitch, and 12 stickers sized for Telegram. Also included are higher resolution versions of each image so that you can edit them as you like for use with other social media and apps. Feel free to make use of them as avatars or icons too, or to j...
2020-08-15 20:37:58 +0000 UTC
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Some progress of late. There's so much animation going on right now but I can't show it just yet. Errrg.
- Not sure the animated GIF up front will work in the mobile app. Here's hoping. Roughs by Katie Winchester/FireNoggin!
- Mitzi's character sheet. Final rendition by L. Frostad. Next up: Wick and Zib.
- A couple o...
2020-08-10 13:29:39 +0000 UTC
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Just a small sampling of the animation currently underway! (You might have caught a glimpse of some of these if you were at the last Lackachat.) These clips are in various stages of completion, to be later handed off to the clean-up team for, well, clean-up, color and lighting.
Work by Syd, Mel Mrozek, Jackdmun, Robin E, Mookie and Starapture!
Before the animation begins, animators hand in poses to capture the beats of a scene they've been assigned. Here 2020-08-03 10:40:57 +0000 UTC
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Enjoying the outdoors in summer in Missouri is complicated (not pictured are the copious chiggers, ticks and mosquitoes).
Still, it beats lockdown.
Hope you're all hanging in there!
Just trying to regain my footing with the comic art here. Been frazzled and working on less ideal hardware this month, but a refurbished Mobile Studio arrived today, so I'll hopefully be up and running more smoothly with that shortly.
2020-07-30 23:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Okay, stream starting for real this time (barring further incident). Sorry for the delay!
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Stream postponed - technical difficulties. Sorry about that!
I should be up and running within the hour (if system restore/shrieking into the void resolve this).
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Hey all,
I'll be doing the next art stream on Friday, July 31st, starting at 7pm Central Time (8pm ET)
2020-07-30 00:28:46 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
The next Live Chat has been scheduled!
Where: Lackadaisy Discord Server - Lackachat Radio / #lackachat
When: Sunday, July 26th beginning at 5pm Pacific Time / 8pm Eastern
This time, we're spotlighting Storyboard Artists and Animators as guests, so if you're curious about the project, what...
2020-07-22 23:00:00 +0000 UTC
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- Mordecai, Serafine and Nico character sheets have recently been completed for animator reference, with final art by consummate cat-drawer, L. Frostad (notes and revisions by Fable and I).
- A sampling of the emoji/sticker set that the amazing Kazoodle has been working on (check out her 2020-07-22 01:25:17 +0000 UTC
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This is a discussion and Q&A Fable and I held with the animation team on the Lackadaisy short film in June (edited to cut out detritus). A few people have told me that they couldn't make it to the live event but still wanted to see the session, so I figured I'd share, in case it's of any interest!
Basically, it's a primer on techniques and rules for drawing the characters, their clothes, shoes, hands, tails, expressions and gestures for the purposes of the film. We also discuss ove...
2020-07-17 01:14:07 +0000 UTC
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Well, device problems persist. Nico is patron art, but also an attempt to reacclimate to my old tablet. It's hanging in there, but my laptop - henceforth known as The Crashtop - isn't having it with large comic files. (Some of you who attend my streams might recall that this is the reason I bought a Wacom Mobilestudio to begin with).
Thanks to one of the animators on the project, though, I have found someone willing to sell me their refurbished Mobilestudio to get me back to roughly...
2020-07-13 04:47:23 +0000 UTC
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A short test as Ashley Nichols (the clean-up lead) works out the line brushes, textures and lighting approach we'll use to put final polish on the animation.
Sample animation by Nick (you can see the full thing here) with background by Frog.
(And Mordecai will eventually get h...
2020-07-04 03:46:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Worthikids will be joining Fable and I to talk about animation, being an independent creator and related topics in a live streaming chat this weekend!
When: Sunday, July 5th, starting at 5pm CT (3pm Pacific)
Where: The Lackadaisy YouTube Channel
I'm not sure Worthi needs an introduction! If you've spent any...
2020-07-02 22:02:43 +0000 UTC
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Patron art of late!
I figured I'd open with the puppo to try to soften the other not so pleasant news. You all deserve to be informed, though:
The Taxman Cometh
It was just a matter of time, really. Patreon is required by law to start charging sales tax on some pledges beginning in July.
Behind the scenes, to minimize charges, I have provided detailed breakdowns of each ple...
2020-06-30 11:07:53 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to share Rocky and Ivy's character sheets, and thought I might as well include some other progress as well!
The other images:
- Layouts by Frog/the design team. This is preliminary background art. Another artist will later be tasked with painting over these to bring them in line with the overall style of the film, but these visualizations are important in the meantime, in part because it gives animators something solid to work with.
- A sample of how storyboards ...
2020-06-27 23:44:39 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: One Hour Delay! This will start at 9pm Central/7pm Pacific now!
Twitch Channel
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To assist the animation team as they work to familiarize themselves with drawing Lackadaisy characters, I'll be hosting a tutorial and answering their questions. For any Patrons who might like to watch, I'll also be st...
2020-06-25 15:57:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey there!
The next Patron Livestream will be this Sunday, June 21st, starting at 7pm Central Time (5pm Pacific) at my Twitch Channel.
I'll be working on some comic art and probably some reward art too. Feel free to come and c...
2020-06-20 00:51:33 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Fable and I are going to spend a little time streaming tomorrow, discussing both the fun and the tribulation of making an independent animated short film with Ashley Nichols (Hell Puppy, HuniCast). Everyone is welcome to come and listen and throw some questions our way in the chat!
We'll be streaming this to YouTube starting tomorrow, Saturday, June 20th, at 8pm Central Time / 6pm Pacific.
2020-06-20 00:42:32 +0000 UTC
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If you've been keeping up with the dev log, you might've seen the Viktor sheet already. Freckle's had to be even more detailed for some scenario specific things.
One of the big challenges for me in working with a team of artists is transcribing explanations and breakdowns for character information heretofore stored solely in my cranium. Of course, I have reams of (messy) notes about the chara...
2020-06-13 11:15:12 +0000 UTC
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The team has lately moved on to finalizing character designs and drawing up formal turnarounds and sheets for animators, so I thought I'd share some of what that looks like! Horatio's is actually one of the simpler sheets as his appearance in the film is brief and we only need to account for a limited range of expressions and motion. Still, it requires a fair bit of detail.
Art here by L. Frostad!
2020-06-05 23:56:55 +0000 UTC
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Illustration for the back cover of the Art Book. (The additional image here is a mock-up of the book jacket layout.)
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There's a raw recording of the last Lackachat up on YouTube as well. It's a loooong one, but the VAs ended up doing a lot of requests and improv. I'll share a much shorter highlights reel later as well.
2020-06-04 23:21:14 +0000 UTC
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